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Career Corner

The job and career is hydraulics. Somebody would say that it is pretty difficult profession. However, hydraulics is also interesting job. There are somethings that a person needs to accomplish for the job. You need to finish high school for hydraulics, then you need few years of on-the-job training to get experience. The most important part is the experience you can get from on-the-job training. Besides, service technician need at least 3 years for full experience working.  Hydraulics is interesting because of repairing or making some machine to work again. Also, the point of the job is interesting by itself.  PZP

Events for Homecoming started on Friday September 28th with
window painting.  Students and staff were divided into 4
groups and assigned a window to paint a slogan on.  Painting
began at 9 a.m.

Homecoming week officially
started on October 1st.  On Monday, the seniors and juniors
decorated the hallway to the commons area.  The sophomores and
freshman decorated the lockers and some of the hallway where the
lockers are.  

Dress-up days this year were
Mismatch Day, Super Hero Day, Class War Movie Day, Nerd Day, and
Red/Black Day. 
Extra prizes were given to those with the most mismatched items and
those wearing the most red and black items.  Winners for the
dress up days were:  Mismatch Day--Amanda, most
mismatched--Amanda and Tasha;  Super Hero Day--Ben; Class War
Movie Day--(Tie) Freshmen "Toy Story 2" and Juniors "Scooby
Doo,"  best dressed for the day--Logan; Nerd
Day--Meka;  and Red/Black Day--Jalyn, Tasha, Molly, most red
and black--Tasha and Molly.  Prizes were handed out on Friday
before students decorated their floats for the 
parade.

LaJames College Visit

The LaJames College representative came to visit the high school October 10th at 8:30 a.m. Jalyn and Amy were the only two attendants. LaJames is a cosmetology school located in Fremont, NE.  You can access more information online.  AKW

Gettin' Pepped up for
Homecoming

The Longhorn fans gathered at the McPherson County School
for the Homecoming Pep Rally on October 4.  We kicked the
evening off with the crowning of the Homecoming Royalty.  The
King and Queen of 2007 are Ben and Meka. The attendants for the Juniors
are Tyrel and Tasha, Sophomore Logan, and Freshmen Gabe and
Molly.  After the crowning the band played a few songs to get
the fans pumped up for the rally.  The freshman won the skit
contest.  The spirit reps Duell, Jordan, Logan, and Ashley
lead the rally in the cheers.  Also we had the luminaries and
we lit the candles inside of them.  As usual we ended the Pep
Rally proudly with our school song. 
DPA

Homecoming Events

For Homecoming we celebrated many events on October 5th. We
started the celebrations with a parade that began at 12:30. There were
23 entries including class and school floats, Frank the Longhorn, the
Sheriff Posse, King and Queen, and many others.
    

The students honored their
parents by giving them a plaque or a bar during the Parents Day
announcements to show their appreciation for the support the parents
give.
     
The senior class sponsored a dance for the High
School students. The dance began at 8:30. The music was played by a
computer using every kind of song. The students enjoyed themselves. The
dance ended at 11:30. 
AGBB

Choral Clinic

The Sandhills choral clinic was on October 9th in Cody. The MCHS choir left Tryon at 7:45 in morning. The MCHS students that attended the choral clinic were Meka, Ben, Duell, Amanda, Amy, Tasha, Kate, Nicole, Tyrel, Jake, Chris, Eric, Mara, Sam, Angie, Gabe, and Dillon. The other schools that attended were Cody, Hyannis, Arthur, Mullen, Thedford, and Sandhills. 

At the choral clinic we had four mass rehearsals with all the schools. Each school had 15 minutes to rehearse their personal selection for the concert that night. The concert started at 7. The clinic was a very good learning experience and the choir will be able to benefit from it for future concerts.   AKW


END OF QUARTER!!

It's the end of first quarter.  The quarter ended on October 17.  Lucky parents get to have parent-teachers conference on Thursday the 25th starting at 3:45pm.  The conferences will be held at the High School.  Hope all you kids were good.  JLS.

October Birthdays

3--Ben; 9--Jacob; 12--Amanda; 19--Duell; 29--Ms.
Clinebell.      
AGBB

Mystery Persons

If you could date/meet a famous person who would it be?
    
#1 Colin Farrell  (date)   #2 Dalai Lama    #3 Johnny Depp

If you could travel to one place in the world, where would it be?
    
#1 Italy    #2 China     #3 Montana

What is your means of transportation?  (car, truck, bike, horse, tractor)

#1 Car     #2 Car     #3 Truck

What is your best/worst quality?

#1 Personality either or  #2 (Best) communication, (worst) worries too much   #3 don't know

Are you a better (cook, kisser, mechanic, athlete, brain)?

#1 athlete    #2 brain     #3 cook

What would your bumper sticker say?

#1 What goes up must come down   #2 Take responsibility for your own actions    #3 My horse is pampered more than my boyfriend

If you could be a famous (occupation) what would it be?

#1 I don't want to be famous     #2 Philanthropist    #3 I don't want to be famous 

Last Month's Answers:   #1 Jordan      #2 Amanda        #3 Mr. Miller

QUESTION OF THE MONTH
At what age should you stop dressing up and go trick or treating?

Duell--Never; Tui--45; Ben--14-22; Meka--Never; Amanda--Never; Petar--13; Jalyn--Never; Amy--Never.

Chris--Never; Matt D.--5; Nicole--14; Tyrel--12; Jordan--Once you get into high school; Tasha--Never; Kate--Never; Jake--Never.

Logan--16; Eric--18-20.

David--Little kids; Ashley--No age; Dillon--12; Molly--No age; Samantha--No age; Gabe--No age; Mara--No age; Angie--No age.

Mrs. Britton--After 6th grade; Ms. Clinebell--Never; Chad Fisher--Ancient; Kathy Fisher--8th grade; Mr. Johnson--8 years old; Mrs. Lester--100; Mr. Miller--65; Roxane Munson--As long as you feel like a kid; Ms. Neal--Whenever you feel stupid doing it; Mrs. Porter--Junior high; Mr. Porter--8th grade; Mr. Thelen--Stop after 9th grade; Mr. Yost--13. DPA

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